This mini-unit includes everything you need to teach, practice, assess, and build confidence with the reading comprehension skill: PROBLEM AND SOLUTION

Use this resource to help your students MASTER the art of understanding problems and solutions in a text.

COMMON CORE AND NEW TEKS STANDARDS INCLUDED FOR EVERY LESSON AND EVERY GRADE 2-6!

GOOGLE CLASSROOM DIGITAL VERSION AVAILABLE!

The student pages for each reading lesson are now available in a digital version! The assessments are also digital.

INCLUDED IN THIS RESOURCE:

1. 5 mini lesson statements and detailed teaching instructions for teaching about problems and solutions in text.
2. 5 sample mini-lesson anchor charts (your anchor charts will look different based on the mentor texts you choose to use and the responses from your students, but you can use the same outline as provided).
3. ‘I Can’ statement cards for each lesson. These are great to post in the room, at a literacy station, glued into readers’ notebooks, or posted at a small group table.
4. Blank anchor chart pages for students. These can be glued into reader’s notebooks in a mini-lesson section. Students can complete them during the lesson and have a record of learning kept safely in their notebooks to reference anytime!
5. 5 graphic organizers for independent activities that match each of the 5 mini-lessons. These can be used with any text students are reading and can be used over and over again. They are great for assessment!
6. Short comprehension quizzes on problems and solutions to administer after the 5 lessons are completed. Answer keys are provided!
7. A certificate of mastery you can give students to build their confidence and tell them you think they are ready for the test!
8. 14 different styles of brag tags for rewarding students for all their hard work and learning.
9. Google Classroom Digital Version of student pages for every reading lesson and assessments.

LOOKING FOR TEXTS TO TEACH PROBLEM AND SOLUTION?

• Also available are original texts that teach the skill of problem and solution and are perfect to use in correlation with these lessons!

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SEE ALL 36 SKILLS:

Click the links to see each set of Comprehension Mini Units for Mastery:

1. Analyzing
2. Author's Purpose
3. Background Knowledge
4. Cause and Effect
5. Comparing
6. Drawing Conclusions
7. Fact and Opinion
8. Finding Evidence
9. Forming Opinions
10. Graphics and Illustrations
11. Inferring
12. Interpreting Dialogue
13. Main Idea and Details
14. Making Connections
15. Making Judgments
16. Making Predictions
17. Metacognition
18. Perspectives
19. Problem & Solution
20. Questioning
21. Reader's Purpose
22. Reflecting
23. Sequencing
24. Settings
25. Speculating
26. Story Structure
27. Summarizing
28. Synthesizing
29. Tension
30. Text Features
31. Text Importance
32. Theme
33. Understanding Characters
34. Visualizing
35. Vocabulary
36. Word Solving Strategies

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